1. Exemplificatio :: Speech recognition
2. Repetitio :: Hommage to A.M.T.
3. Questio :: Can machines understand ?
   
4. Lectio ::
   • von Neumann architecture
   • transistors and languages
   • Unix Epoch
   • Gates, Tanenbaum, Torvalds
5. Disputatio :: Can machines understand ?

• speech-to-text technologies start to get ubiquitious (Siri, Watson, Alexa, Cortana, Assistant etc.)
• embedded & offline speech-to-text systems also exist (Sphink, Kaldi)

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• conditions of understanding
• examples of understanding
• examples of non-understanding

• "the last representative of the great mathematicians"
• statistics, stochastic computing, quantum mechanics, game theory, computing (merge sort algorithm, von Neumann architecture), self-replicating machines (von Neumann probes) etc.
• Manhattan project, Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer (EDVAC)

• a detailed design of a "very high speed automatic digital computing system"
• contains the first published description of the logical design of a computer using the stored-program concept

• a transistor is a semiconductor device with at least three terminals
• Shockley, Bardain at Brattain presented a functional concept on 23th December 1947 to some Bell Labs colleagues and managers
• "2,913,276,327,576,980,000,000 transistors shipped since the moment of invention" (forbes.com, 2014)